Tasting Drakness

Chapter 32

Tobias POV

We had just finished eating dinner, yet I was craving something else. Someone else. I never should have fed on Aleera. I was only allowed to feed on Lycus and Darius, and I knew the reason for it, but her blood had been calling me from the moment I laid eyes on her. I told myself just a taste, but I knew I was done for when I fed on her when I tried to take the shadows from her.

Lycus watched me; he had been looking at me strangely all day since he found me arguing with Aleera.

“I need to check the wards in the forest. Do you want to come? ” Darius asked, getting up from his seat.

“No, I will wait here,” I told him. He tilted his head to the side, examining me. I always went with him, and I knew he was suspicious of me too. They all were. My hunger was insatiable, one of the reasons I was only to strictly feed on Lycus and Darius. They could fight me off. Kalen and Aleera, not so much if I lost control.

“When did you last feed? You seem to be in a mood,” Darius asked before his eyes flicked to Lycus.

“Earlier off me, twice actually,” Lycus answered, and Darius turned his gaze back to me, and I noticed Kalen get up to head through the bathroom, and I growled in warning at him.

“Sit Kalen, I will take you to see her later,” I told him, and he sighed but sat back on the bed, yet Darius still didn’t leave.

“Are you struggling since feeding on her the other night?” Darius asked me, and I shook my head.

“No, I am just drained,” I lied. He didn’t look like he believed me, but I also knew Darius had an obsession with the wards, and my mood wouldn’t keep him here much longer; I just needed to wait him out.

“Lycus, do you want to come?” Darius turned and asked him.

“Can I?” Kalen asked him excitedly.

“I thought you wanted to see Aleera?”

come back anyway,”

lips quirked in the corners loving his excitement, and I wished he always looked so happy. Why couldn’t we be enough for him? Why did she bring

He needs to

him and gave him a pleading look and I knew Darius was

wouldn’t allow her to hurt him, understanding that

her, and

you still want to bring her in here?” I asked him. I didn’t think he was serious about that. Darius looked away, and I knew he was just as affected by her presence as we all were. He was just

of her blood. I hated her

long, but remain with them, don’t leave them alone together,” Darius snapped before opening up a portal. Lycus groaned, and I know he hated leaving Kalen. Nighttime was pretty much the only time

the party. At first, the idea of marking them disgusted me, and I could have lived without the powersharing.

and Darius and I cloaked her, which was stupid o nour part, we cloaked her so well we couldn’t even

to a permanent shield on her for some reason. The only way to break

for her, following lead after lead. We weren’t

and Lycus had become sick after accidentally ingesting wolfsbane, which in turn made Kalen call on us. I still remembered how filthy and skinny they both were, and Darius

felt her was beyond all of our reasoning. It was almost like she called o nus. She wasn’t bonded to us yet, but we all had an inkling she was in trouble, and our marks burned our wrists when she

grab Kalen’s chin and kiss him. I smirked, watching them before Lycus let him go and followed Darius through the portal. That was also how we realized we could power share. We walked in on Lycus and Kalen fucking and felt the magnitude of power in the air, s o Darius did some research, and we learned by marking each other

taboo and only accepted if the keeper was dead. Ours wasn’t, so it caused a lot of issues.

one, but Lycus and Kalen continued having power somehow when we realized how they were transferring it. Emotion. It repulsed Darius and

and commit to an actual relationship. Lycus and Kalen had no such issues, but Darius and I were straight. Completely straight. She gave us no choice when she ran, and we were forced to forge the bond. Kalen and Lycus were both patient and never pushed us past our comfort zones too much. When eventually, Darius got injured, protecting me from bloodhounds, we had refused for years to share power the way Lycus and Kalen did. But while hunting for her, we were set upon by

me, and I owed him, and I realized it worked better than feeding him my blood. After that, it became a non-issue. As long as nothing went near my ass, I was okay with it. Well, for the first few years until the

ourselves more inclined toward him. When we needed power, we usually went to him for it.

at?” Kalen asked, making me look up a

first got together,” I told him, and Kalen smiled deviously before crawling to the edge of the